Every fall, The Joint Commission announces the top 20 most-cited standards among its accredited hospitals in conjunction with the annual Hospital Executive Briefings events. As has become a theme in the most-cited standards list over the past several years, clinical-based findings have continued...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 12
One of the major changes the final omnibus rule places on providers and business associates is the presumption that any unauthorized use or disclosure of unsecured protected health information (PHI) is a "breach." Specifically, the omnibus rule states that:
In 2010, the Department of Health and the National Health Service (NHS) Institute commissioned King's College in London and The King's Fund to undertake research into what matters to patients and how to measure their feedback. The result is The Patient Experience Book: A...
Briefings on Accreditation & Quality - Volume 24, Issue 12
Many professionals who end up in a position of advocating for safety and quality improvements in the healthcare environment arrive there through personal experience. That experience might involve losing a relative to a preventable error, or having a firsthand experience with a...
Healthcare organizations have just begun becoming accustomed to the idea that readmission rates within 30 days affect reimbursement from CMS. Leaders in these organizations know that patients admitted for medical conditions such as heart failure and pneumonia who come back will...
Every fall, The Joint Commission announces the top 20 most-cited standards among its accredited hospitals in conjunction with the annual Hospital Executive Briefings events. As has become a theme in the most-cited standards list over the past several years, clinical-based findings have continued...
We know that measuring healthcare quality helps healthcare systems improve. But we could and should be doing it a lot better. Click the link above to read more.
AHAP’s own Jodi Eisenberg was recently interviewed on the changing world of accreditation. AHAP has been given permission to reprint the contents of that Q and A. Click the link above to read more.
During a recent Joint Commission survey, a question was raised regarding the “length” of nurse call cords (it appears that the surveyor indicated that the end of the cord should be an inch above the finished floor). Click the link above to read more.